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  2. A Time of Gifts | Wikipedia

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    A Time of Gifts (1977) is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor. Published by John Murray when the author was 62, it is a memoir of the first part of Leigh Fermor's journey on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople (officially Istanbul) in 1933/34. A Time of Gifts, whose introduction is a letter to his ...

  3. The Innocents Abroad | Wikipedia

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    The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain. [2] Published in 1869, it humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered steamship Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867. The five-month voyage included numerous side trips ...

  4. Travel literature | Wikipedia

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    Literature. The genre of travel literature or travelogue encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs. [1] One early travel memoirist in Western literature was Pausanias, a Greek geographer of the 2nd century CE. In the early modern period, James Boswell 's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1786) helped shape ...

  5. On a Shoestring to Coorg | Wikipedia

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    On a Shoestring to Coorg describes the 1973 journey of Murphy and her four-year-old daughter Rachel through India. They travel slowly by bus, train and boat from Mumbai to Cape Comorin, the southernmost point of India. They then return to the place they enjoyed the most, the hill province of Kodagu (Coorg).

  6. Molvanîa | Wikipedia

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    Molvanîa. Molvanîa (subtitled A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry) is a book parodying travel guidebooks. The guide describes the fictional country Molvanîa, a post-Soviet state, a nation described as "the birthplace of the whooping cough " and "owner of Europe's oldest nuclear reactor ". It was created by Australians Tom Gleisner, Santo ...

  7. Cornish literature | Wikipedia

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    Cornish literature. Cornish literature refers to written works in the Cornish language. The earliest surviving texts are in verse and date from the 14th century. There are virtually none from the 18th and 19th centuries but writing in revived forms of Cornish began in the early 20th century.

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